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Sentences starting with villages

Villages and cities grew into form and lay cradled in the landscape. [10]

Sentences ending with villages

And all the young people I ever saw in my life was when I rode fast through the villages. [13]
I love this wild world of the woods and fields and--" "And the shebangs and grog-shops and the dirty, drunken villages? [11]
Keep away from them villages. [13]
Mostly, though, because the men got drunk at the villages. [13]
The snow was thawing in the sunshine, the horses galloped quickly, and on both sides of the road were forests of different kinds, fields, and villages. [2]
I have noticed that a great pumpkin, the wonder of a village, seemed to lose at least a third of its dimensions between the field where it grew and the cattle-show fair-table, where it took its place with other enormous pumpkins from other wondering villages. [6]
Roar, roar, thou storm, stream, stream, rushing rain, rage, waves, and destroy the meadows, swallow up houses and villages! [10]
The train bands stepped ashore and gossiped with friends a quarter of an hour, then pulled out and repeated this at the succeeding villages. [5]
He asked Weyrother several times to repeat words he had not clearly heard and the difficult names of villages. [2]
In order to reach Plymouth a wait of a couple of hours was necessary at one of the sleepy but historic villages. [4]

Sentences containing villages two or more times

Our villages are superior to German villages in more merits, excellences, conveniences, and privileges than I can enumerate, but the hotels do not belong in the list. [5]

More example sentences with the word villages in them

What are the young men of the villages and the cities doing meantime? [4]
Another one tells you that this is an exaggeration; that the two chief villages, Port Louis and Curepipe, fall short of heavenly perfection; that nobody lives in Port Louis except upon compulsion, and that Curepipe is the wettest and rainiest place in the world. [5]
Occasionally the northeast wind comes down with whirling, howling fury, as if it would scoop villages and orchards out of the little nook; and the rain, riding on the whirlwind, pours in drenching floods. [4]
Where the valleys widened we came to silent, decorous little towns and villages where yellow-lit windows gleaming through the trees suggested refuge and peace, while we were wanderers in the night. [9]
All the friends whose acquaintance we have made were there, and many from remoter villages and towns. [6]
That field in which the tanks manoeuvre is characteristic of the whole of this district of levelled villages and vanished woods. [9]
In Frankfort everybody wears clean clothes, and I think we noticed that this strange thing was the case in Hamburg, too, and in the villages along the road. [5]
And, as though we were still in the pastoral times of peace, in the square of one of these villages a horse-fair was in progress, blue-smocked peasants were trotting chunky ponies over the stones. [9]
But these occasional visitors may have been mere wanderers, which, straying along in the woods by day, and perhaps stalking through the streets of still villages by night, had worked their way along down from the ragged mountain-spurs of higher latitudes. [6]
In winter he visited his other villages or spent his time reading. [2]
Of all the villages of Upper Egypt, from the time of Rameses, none has been so bad as Beni Hassan. [11]
In the mountain villages of Switzerland, and along the roads, one has always the roar of the torrent in his ears. [5]
Sterling and the villages north, where there's universal gun-packing and fights every day--where there are more men like him, it seems to me they would attract him most. [13]
A post-village and township in _________ Co., State of _________,situated in a fine agricultural region, 2 thriving villages, Pigwacket Centre and Smithville, 3 churches, several school houses, and many handsome private residences. [6]
Many villages and towns lay on his road, but most of them had been damaged in the war. [10]
The burning of towns and villages, the retreats after battles, the blow dealt at Borodino and the renewed retreat, the burning of Moscow, the capture of marauders, the seizure of transports, and the guerrilla war were all departures from the rules. [2]
Glaze--Stone Bridge--Sterling, villages to the north, had risen against the invasion of Gentile settlers and the forays of rustlers. [13]
I stand godmother to nearly all the newborn infants in our villages and hamlets. [10]
The first Russians to enter Moscow were the Cossacks of Wintzingerode's detachment, peasants from the adjacent villages, and residents who had fled from Moscow and had been hiding in its vicinity. [2]
Academic villages seem to change very slowly. [6]
Oxbow Village seemed to be running over with its one extra young man,--as may be seen sometimes in larger villages, and even in cities of moderate dimensions. [6]
I was unknown to a great number of the men of both villages, and familiar with but very few-- chiefly those with whom I had a gossiping acquaintance. [11]
From time to time we wound through the cobble-stoned streets of historic villages, each having its stone church end the bodki-shaped steeple of blue slate so characteristic of that country. [9]
In one of these villages we passed a church, its doors flung open; the congregation was singing a familiar hymn. [9]
He showed us the whole thing, on a relief-map, and we could see our route, with all its elevations and depressions, its villages and its rivers, as clearly as if we were sailing over it in a balloon. [5]
Between the hollows the villages of Bezubova and Zakharino showed in the distance. [2]
In many of the two-story Rockland families, and in those favored households of the neighboring villages whose members had been invited to the great party, there was a very general excitement among the younger people on the morning after the great event. [6]
And back of the town, far around and abroad over the miles of level campagna, were scattered rows, and circles, and clusters of lights, all glowing like so many gems, and marking where a score of villages were sleeping. [5]
High up on the sides of the precipices, where it seems impossible for a goat to climb, are vineyards and houses, and even villages, hung on slopes, nearly up to the clouds, and with no visible way of communication with the rest of the world. [4]
The taxes of the region wherein Domremy lies have been collected sixty-three times since then, and all the villages of that region have paid except that one--Domremy. [5]
Away off on the opposite shore of the lake we could see some villages, and now for the first time we could observe the real difference between their proportions and those of the giant mountains at whose feet they slept. [5]
At a distance the mass of the Russian people seem as monotonous as their steppes and their commune villages, but the Russian novelists find characters in this mass perfectly individualized, and, indeed, give us the impression that all Russians are irregular polygons. [4]
It swept across the island, levelled forests of cocoa palms, battered villages to pieces, caught that little fleet in the harbour, and played with it in a horrible madness. [11]
The Copt and the Arab had spread the report that Fielding brought death to the villages by moving the little flags on his map. [11]
The same thing that took place in Moscow had happened in all the towns and villages on Russian soil beginning with Smolensk, without the participation of Count Rostopchin and his broadsheets. [2]
She told him that they sought some distant country place remote from towns or even other villages, and with a faltering tongue inquired what road they would do best to take. [12]
When I say that that village is of the usual style, I mean to insinuate that all Syrian villages within fifty miles of Damascus are alike--so much alike that it would require more than human intelligence to tell wherein one differed from another. [5]
Little white villages surrounded by trees, nestle in the valleys or roost upon the lofty perpendicular sea-walls. [5]
During the night subtle electricity had carried the tale over all the wires of the continent and under the sea; and in all villages and towns of the Union, from the. [5]
After we were stripped and had taken the first chilly dash, we discovered that haunting atrocity that has embittered our lives in so many cities and villages of Italy and France --there was no soap. [5]
He did not stop in towns or villages, but camped outside of them and sent his servants in to buy provisions. [5]
They get a specific look and character, which are the same in all the villages where one studies them. [6]
The villages were small, the roads pretty generally wretched save in summer, and from many of the fields the most abundant crop that could be gathered was that of stones. [4]
On their well-cultivated slopes appeared here the white, glimmering walls of a temple; yonder villages, houses, and cottages, like the herds and single sheep that he half concealed by dense foliage. [10]
We rode on several miles, keeping away from villages, and then crossed the river. [5]
The light was restored to her in Baden the 5th of January, 1839 We made several excursions on foot to the neighboring villages, over winding and beautiful roads and through enchanting woodland scenery. [5]
Union, on the railway, is the forlornest of little villages, with some three hundred inhabitants and a forlorn hotel, kept by an ex-stage-driver. [4]
We toyed with politics, with simplicity, we wasted the land, we played cards as our coaches passed through famine-stricken villages. [9]
We saw no ploughed fields, very few villages, no trees or grass or vegetation of any kind, scarcely, and hardly ever an isolated house. [5]
Pierre's wanderings took place in a period when civilization had made but scant marks upon the broad bosom of the prairie land, and towns and villages were few and far scattered. [11]
The villages and palm-groves were shrouded in shimmering mist, quivering heat, and dazzling yellow light; and the passer-by on the raised dykes of the shore bent his head as he dragged his weary feet through the deep dust. [10]
These men were packing in supplies from one of the northern villages. [13]
They disappeared from other sections of the Union with the mud; no doubt they will disappear from the river villages, also, when proper pavements come in. [5]
But the use of Vesuvius, after all, is to furnish us a background for the violet light at sundown, when the villages at its foot gleam like a silver fringe. [4]
With the exception of this sweet spot, I thought all the little towns and villages we passed wretched- looking in the extreme. [5]
The great Temple of the Sun, the Temple of Jupiter, and several smaller temples, are clustered together in the midst of one of these miserable Syrian villages, and look strangely enough in such plebeian company. [5]
Even the outlines of the hills that surround us are changed by the creeping of the villages with their spires and school-houses up their sides. [6]
The villages southwest of the city were burning. [10]
The little schemes of little people were going on in all our cities and villages without thought of the fearful convulsion which was soon coming to shatter the hopes and cloud the prospects of millions. [6]
He saw lots of land and lots of villages and four cities. [5]
Through the streets of Frederick, through Crampton's Gap, over South Mountain, sweeping at last the hills and the woods that skirt the windings of the Antietam, the long battle had travelled, like one of those tornadoes which tear their path through our fields and villages. [6]
The citizens' herds of cattle grazed between the defensive fortifications and the city wall, while beside and beyond them appeared villages and hamlets. [10]
The superficial foreign observer finds sameness in our different States, tiresome family likeness in our cities, hideous monotony in our villages, and a certain common atmosphere of life, which increasing facility of communication tends to increase. [4]
Many of these now empty are of size sufficient to accommodate the entire population of several villages. [4]
However, it was not for that that I left him jailed, but for maliciously destroying the only public well in one of his wretched villages. [5]
In his mind, Napoleon became a rough Yankee general; of the cities, villages, and fortress he formed as accurate a picture as a resident of Venice from Marco Polo's account of Tartary. [9]
Villages, woods, whose names came back to me as the major repeated them, lay like cloud shadows on the sunny plain, and the faintest shadow of all, far to the eastward, was Lens itself. [9]
Rostov was just mounting to go for a ride round the neighboring villages with Ilyin; he let Lavrushka have another horse and took him along with him. [2]
Then, taking the motor once more, we passed through wrecked and empty villages until we came to the foot of Vimy Ridge. [9]
An' it led me to the last lonely villages of the Utah border. [13]
The villages interested me because of things which Major Sleeman says about them in his books--particularly what he says about the division of labor in them. [5]
You'll come down low then, so as you can examine the villages as you spin along. [5]
If you will look at the map,[1] you will see, dotted along the bottoms and the bluffs beside the great Mississippi, the string of villages, Kaskaskia, La Prairie du Rocher, Fort Chartres, St. Philip, and Cahokia. [9]
Why should the little white houses of the prosperous little villages on the line of the rail seem cold and suggest winter, and the land seem scrimped and without an atmosphere? [4]
And there were little villages, with neat stations well placarded with showy advertisements--mainly of almost too self-righteous brands of "sheepdip. [5]
In this amphitheater it lies, a mass of green foliage and white villages, fronting Naples and Vesuvius. [4]
All at once it came to me strongly that the friction between the two villages had consummated in the foreman's injury, and was here coming to a painful crisis. [11]
In peacetime it is only necessary to billet troops in the villages of any district and the number of fires in that district immediately increases. [2]
And he delved into his memory, recalling famous rides which he had heard related in the villages and round the camp-fires. [13]
All the villages in this part of Lincolnshire exhibit the same character. [4]
Such things happen in these villages. [13]
In country villages, in remote farmhouses, this great social event was talked of, Henderson's wealth was the subject of conjecture, Margaret's toilet was an object of interest. [4]
When one is in one of those villages it seems spacious, and its houses seem high and not out of proportion to the mountain that overhands them--but from our altitude, what a change! [5]
Some seem as if just from the woods, and yet stalk about the streets and public places with all the easy nonchalance that they would about their own villages. [4]
And as this huge continent swept along overshadowing the earth, upon its slopes they discerned the twinkling lights of a thousand sleeping villages, and it was as if the constellations were filing in procession through the sky. [5]
When Sunday came, however, there seemed to be truce between the villages. [11]
When the two hours were gone, they mounted again and rode on through the dark villages towards Mandakan. [11]
Along about an hour after breakfast we saw the first prairie-dog villages, the first antelope, and the first wolf. [5]
We laid at his door every outrage that had happened at the three stations, and put upon him the blood of those who had been carried off to torture in the Indian villages of the northern forests. [9]
There is a hill from which a most extensive prospect is had of the city, the teeming valley, with a score of villages and innumerable white spires, of forests and meadows and broken mountain ranges. [4]
I would not have gone into this dissertation upon Syrian villages but for the fact that Nimrod, the Mighty Hunter of Scriptural notoriety, is buried in Jonesborough, and I wished the public to know about how he is located. [5]
How often he had walked through these charming valleys, climbed these heights, stopped in these villages! [10]
There were no habitations between villages. [5]
He spoke in great cities to such cultivated audiences as no other man could gather about him, and in remote villages where he addressed plain people whose classics were the Bible and the "Farmer's Almanac. [6]
How many John Gilpins there must be in this population,--citizens of "famous London town," but living with the simplicity of the inhabitants of our inland villages! [6]
Little villages, separate from the world, abound on these marinas. [4]
So now the frauds reckoned they was out of danger, and they begun to work the villages again. [5]
She saw the foundations of Baalbec, and Thebes, and Ephesus laid; she saw these villages grow into mighty cities, and amaze the world with their grandeur--and she has lived to see them desolate, deserted, and given over to the owls and the bats. [5]
Pretty hills and forests and temporary summer structures cannot have the poetic or the substantial interest of the ancient villages and towns clinging to the hills, the old stone houses, the vines, the ruins, the atmosphere of a long civilization. [4]
Most of them followed their calling in the villages or towns that lie among the hills or along the inland streams. [3]

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